Ethnic political exclusion and terrorism: Analyzing the local conditions for violence

Holley E. Hansen, Stephen C. Nemeth and Jacob A. Mauslein
Additional contact information
Holley E. Hansen: Department of Political Science, Oklahoma State University, USA
Stephen C. Nemeth: Department of Political Science, Oklahoma State University, USA

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020, vol. 37, issue 3, 280-300

Abstract: Previous work finds that countries that contain an excluded group are at higher risk of terrorism. However, there are good reasons to think that the impact of exclusion may be more likely to motivate ethnic violence when this exclusion is paired with local conditions that increase awareness of intergroup competition. In this study, we examine sub-national terrorist violence and find that areas that contain an excluded ethnic group are at higher risk of violence. Moreover, this risk is heightened by local population density, wealth, and country regime type.

Keywords: Domestic terrorism; ethnic exclusion; ethnicity; subnational analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0738894218782160 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:compsc:v:37:y:2020:i:3:p:280-300

DOI: 10.1177/0738894218782160

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Conflict Management and Peace Science from Peace Science Society (International)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().